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	<title><![CDATA[Sleepy in Washington]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hooman-majd/sleepy-in-washington_b_138866.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Occasionally, even an Op-Ed columnist of great repute gets something so wrong that his views literally beg for a rebuttal. Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/opinion/29friedman.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin">today</a> about Iran, and about (President) Obama's potential to negotiate with our adversary from a position of strength, or with "leverage", as he puts it. From where Mr. Friedman sits, in Bethesda, Maryland, Iran is looking "very Soviet" to him, a view that most Iranians sitting in Tehran, Iran, might disagree...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-11-29T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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